What is it about?
Hospitalized patients typically have pain due to disease, injury, or surgery. Rating their pain on a scale of 0 to 10 helps nursing staff to treat their pain. Use of the pain scale for labor is inappropriate since it is not a disease or injury. Labor is a process that involves pain but is largely a healthy process which culminates in birth. Determining how women are coping by use of the Farver-Campos Labor Coping Scale enables nursing staff to help women cope. Use of listed coping options help with labor progress, as well as helping women cope.
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Why is it important?
Use of the 0-10 pain scale in hospitalized patients led to increased use of opiates, which led to increase in opiate overdoses and a rise in opioid dependency and death. Use of the Farver-Campos Labor Coping Scale involves coping options which decrease use of interventions and medications. Coping options have no side effects, and promote labor progress.
Perspectives
Society has increasingly viewed labor as a negative process because it involves pain. Rather, it is a competent physiologic process. Through this process, new life comes into the world. Women need to be encouraged to view labor as a positive experience resulting in their goal of having a baby. Labor is not about having pain, it's about having a baby. Coping helps women focus on labor as a positive process. Use of the Farver-Campos Labor Coping scale helps focus nursing care on helping women cope.
Marie-Celine Farver
Sutter Health
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This page is a summary of: The Farver–Campos Labor Coping Scale as a Replacement for the 10-Point Pain Scale for Labor, The Journal of Perinatal Education, January 2024, Springer Publishing Company,
DOI: 10.1891/jpe-2022-0034.
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